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The Foundry ships Mari 1.5

The Foundry has released Mari 1.5, a significant update to its 3D paint package.

The realism of the viewport display has been improved in Mari 1.5, with the addition of real-time shadows and support for cube maps, facilitating painting textures in context.

Interoperability with other standard tools has also been boosted, with the option to handle patch-based textures in Maya “with a single click” and import support for Photoshop’s .abr custom brush format.

Other new features include support for overlapping UVs; mirroring in the paint buffer for symmetrical painting; and normal mapping functionality, including the power to paint normal maps from bump or height maps.